Day: August 10, 2016

Item 8. 07/14/2011: I have difficulty understanding why my statement to a third party is a meeting. I did not know at that time Jessica Cooper, at her request, was not receiving reports (Chapter 53), that she would share documents and information with the media and not the victims (Chapters 38-40), that the Oakland County Prosecutor had no evidence exonerating Busch (Chapter 63) or that on October 28, 2008 the Oakland County Prosecutor, the Wayne County Prosecutor and the Michigan State Police all believed Christopher Busch was the best suspect when they filed the search warrant affidavit.

Item 9. 07/17/11: On this date Cooper publicly requested information on the possible involvement of Archibald Sloan in the OCCK murders. The Task Force had determined there was a mDNA match between hairs found on the bodies of both Mark Stebbins and Tim King with a hair found in the car of Sloan. I later learned that the investigating officers requested Cooper to go public because they had no facts to charge Sloan other than the mDNA match (Chapter 64). As a courtesy MSP Lieutenant Denise Powell and FBI Agent Sean Callaghan advised my son Chris and I an hour prior to the announcement. I believed then, and I still believe, Sloan could be a good lead. However, the Task Force has not discovered any facts to identify this unknown suspect. On the other hand, the information my daughter Cathy provided the Task Force did result in an identified suspect which Cooper will not discuss with me.

Item 10. 07/18/2012: See my response to the two previous dates.

Item 11. 08/29/2012: When Jessica Cooper would not discuss the Christopher Busch involvement with me I wrote Sheriff Michael Bouchard requesting a meeting with his chief investigator. Bouchard offered to attend but I advised him this was not necessary. No prosecutor was present and I thought that Don Tullock was with the sheriff’s office.

Item 12. 08/29/12: Attached as Exhibit J is the four page memorandum I dictated on my drive home after the meeting. I referred to Tullock as Phelps and made the handwritten insert after this was brought to my attention. Gary Miller called me upon receiving the memorandum to indicate my reference to the Sloan involvement was perhaps understated. I did not receive any facts exonerating Busch from possible involvement.

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Trial publicity is discussed in Rule 3.6 of the Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct. The rule states “ (a). A lawyer who is a participating or has participated in the investigation or litigation of a matter shall not make an extrajudicial statement that the lawyer knows or reasonably should know will be disseminated by means of public communication and will have a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing an adjudicative proceeding in the matter. …” Did the TV appearance of Cooper violate this rule?

As I asked you in Chapter 61, how many of these 27 meetings were actually meetings with the Prosecutor?

THIS LIST DELIBERATELY OMITS THE DATE OF JULY 20, 2011 WHEN JESSICA COOPER AND PAUL WALTON ASKED ME TO APPEAR IN COURT WHERE THEY FALSELY ACCUSED ME OF A CRIME. I WILL DISCUSS THIS IN MY NEXT CHAPTER.